I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
LILY TOMLINMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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